start-transcript causes script to fail in a background job

Question

I am creating a powershell script as a background job using start-job which then logs it\'s output using start-transcript. Below is the code of both:

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Answer 1

Apparently Start-Transcript isn't supported in background jobs. If you do a Receive-Job to look at the script output you're likely to see an error like this:

This host does not support transcription.
    + CategoryInfo          : NotImplemented: (:) [Start-Transcript], PSNotSupportedException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NotSupported,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartTranscriptCommand

BTW in PowerShell 2.0 I recommend you switch from Set-PSDebug -strict to Set-StrictMode -Version 2.0 - it will catch more potential errors.